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SLSO reported revenue of $5.57 milliomn for the season thatended Sunday, up from $4.844 million during last year’s season. Total attendance for the seaso was up nearly 8 percentto 178,837, compared to 165,8655 last year. Per-concert attendancer was also up nearly 8 percent to which included12 near-capacituy or sold-out performances. Per-concert attendance was 1,521 last year. Fred Bronstein, president and executivde director, attributed the symphony’s increase in revenue and attendance to its as a way to attractrnew audiences.
More than half of the attendeee ofthe symphony’s SLSO Presentxs series, which included The Lord of the Ringsx Symphony, The Beach Boys and Simplu Sinatra, were new to SLSO, representing 3,459 new The symphony also launched its Casual Classics seriese as an accessible “entry point” for new The symphony is increasintg its presence on the radio and has partneresd with St. Louis’ local classicao station KFUO Classic 99 to featurde arrangements from the SLSO archives andstarting 26, weekly live Saturdaty evening broadcasts of the Orchestral Seriea 2009-10 season.
“The 2008-09 season represents an important step forwarcd inthe SLSO’s audience-building and is now the springboard toward a bold goal of doublintg our audience as identified in our new 10-year strategif vision,” Bronstein said in a statement. “Thisz transformation has begun with a diversificatiobn of our concert offerings with an eye toward developin new audiences while reconnecting with ourcore
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